/tags/scalability/Recent content in Scalability on Santiago Hurtado | System ArchitectHugoen-usWed, 17 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0200/posts/mlink-data-foundations/Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0200/posts/mlink-data-foundations/<p>Systems architecture decisions get made early, before the data is real or the assumptions are tested. By the time you understand what you actually need, the right sampling rate, the right granularity, the right query patterns for your model, the structure is already set. And if that structure runs through a managed platform, you don&rsquo;t fully own what comes out the other side: the data has been shaped by someone else&rsquo;s schema, throttled by someone else&rsquo;s rate limits, and priced by someone else&rsquo;s usage tiers.</p>